Ed Musante

BORN: Honolulu, Hawaii

EDUCATION: 1999 MFA, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

1981 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1965 BA in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, CA

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Juror for Expressions West 2006

Utah State University ,visiting artist, April 7-9-2005

Lecture presentation, student painting workshops, and NPR radio interview.

Cill Rialaig Artist residency, September 15-October 15, 2003, Ballinskellig, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland.

Morris Graves Residency, Loleta, CA June, 2002

1987 Finalist, Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Award, Seattle, WA, 1987

Solo Exhibitions:

2013 Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA September 10 - October 26, 2013

2011 Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, New York, NY September 15 - October 29, 2011

2010 Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA June 29 - August 21, 2010

2009 West Coast Drawings VIII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Cuver City, CA

2009 New Paintings, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008 Cigar Box, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2008 Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA August 15 - June 7, 2008

2007 Cigar Box Paintings, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

2006 Collection of Works, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay,OR

2006 Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, New York

2006 Cigar Box Paintings, Stanford University Faculty Club

2005 Inland, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2004 Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003 Cigar Box, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2002 Ed Musante: New Work, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Landscapes, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA

Cigar Box Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 Cigar Box Works, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2018 Gail Severn Gallery, June 25 - July 24, 2018

2015 Tohono Chul Gallery, TAKING FLIGHT:BIRDS IN ART

2015 Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014 Etherton Gallery, Tucson AZ Without and Within - IN Gallery Pop-Up

2014 Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, PCC, SOUTHWEST Observed & Considered

Publications:

San Francisco Ed Musante Paul Thiebaud by Elaine Sexton, Art in America, December 2008

Mullarkey, Maureen. "Ed Musante: Cigar Box Paintings." New York Sun, 1 June, 2006

A Bay Area Tradition: An Artists' Group Focus on Life Drawing. San Francisco, CA: Prepress Assembly, Inc., 2005. Introduction by Carolyn Kastner, Ph.D.

Twenty-Five Treasures, San Francisco, CA, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Fall 2005

Ed Musante: Cigar Box Paintings, San Francisco, CA, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Spring 2004.

Twenty-Five Treasures, San Francisco, CA, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Fall 2003.

Twenty-Five Treasures, San Francisco, CA, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Fall 2000.

Twenty-Five Treasures, San Francisco, CA, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Fall 1999.

These paintings were all done during the Pandemic of 2020.